I move:
That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, in view of—
(i) the Second Stage of the Bankruptcy Bill, 1982 having been taken on the 10th July, 1984, on the referral of the Bill to the then Joint Committee on Legislation pursuant to the then Order of the House of the 29th July, 1983,
and
(ii) the Committee Stage having been taken in that Joint Committee pursuant to the then Order of the House of 7th July, 1983,
the Second and Committee Stages of the Bankruptcy Bill, 1982 be waived and the Bill be set down for Report Stage.
The purpose of putting down the Bill for Report Stage is in effect to restore it to the Order Paper or to the stage it had reached in the previous Seanad. For technical reasons the usual procedure for restoring Bills under Standing Order 101 could not be used and this motion is in substitution for that procedure. The other House took the Bill on Report Stage and the Seanad is only being asked to do the same. To facilitate Senators I have arranged for a report of the proceedings of the former Joint Committee on Legislation and the debates of the committee on the Bill, nine in all, to be made available in the Seanad Office. The House must agree that this is the proper procedure to take since this Bill has been around since 1962.